Michael Bay’s new movie Transformers 5 is going to film in Chicago, Illinois.
According to the Chicago Tribune, Michael Bay is ramping up production in the windy city.
Talking with WGN Radio’s Dean Richards, Bay said he plans to be back in Chicago sometime later this year. The film is scheduled for a 2017 release, with plans already in the works for two more “Transformers” movies after that. Billion-dollar revenues will do that.
“You going to blow up Michigan Avenue again?” Richards asks Bay in his interview. “No, we’re gonna find a new street,” Bay said. “But I love Chicago.” And then, calling out Chicago’s problems including gun violence, Michael Bay added: “We’ll come in with some Transformers to even it out.”
This should not come as a surprise as Transformers: Dark of the Moon and Transformers: Age of Extinction both filmed in Chicago.
In the fourth Age of Extinction, Mark Wahlberg played Cade Yeager, a Texas inventor and mechanic who was also very protective of his daughter, Nicola Peltz’s Tessa Yeager. The movie would later go on to gross over $1.1 billion at the global box office, bringing the total Transformers franchise to a total gross of over $3.7 billion and that doesn’t even include merchandise.
Transformers 5 will be written by Iron Man writers Art Marcum, Matt Holloway and Ken Nolan from Black hawk Dawn.Â
